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New challenges to arms export control: Whither Wassenaar?

Ron Smith Professor of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London; Visiting Professor at the London Business School, University of Colorado
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Bernard Udis Professor of Economics, Emeritus, University of Colorado, Boulder
Pages 81-92 | Published online: 05 Feb 2008

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  • The opinions in this paper are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the U.S. government. Smith is grateful to the Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder for its hospitality during 1997–1998, when most of the work on this paper was done, and to the ESRC for financial support under research grant R00235685 on models of the arms trade. We are also grateful to Mary Ann Casey, Yongmin Chen, Saadet Deger, Paul Levine, and Somnath Sen for comments on an earlier draft.

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